Ten years getting businesses set up properly, and two years running one.
Over ten years as a management consultant across Europe and Asia before settling in Mexico. Since then I have opened and run a business here myself, and spent two years as the hands-on advisor and manager at Satisana Medicine in Puerto Vallarta, taking it from 440,100 MXN to over 2.6 million MXN in annual sales. I built its licensing, compliance, work permits, banking, property and operational foundation from nothing.
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I work in English, French and Spanish, which matters more than it sounds. Most of the offices you need to deal with operate only in Spanish, and the difference between a file that moves and a file that sits is often whether someone can argue your case in the room.
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Founded MX exists because most people get this stage wrong. Not for lack of ambition, but because the people advising them have never had to run the business afterwards.
Who is behind Founded MX
Setting up a business in Mexico touches legal ground no single advisor should handle alone. Founded MX is not a one-person operation behind the scenes.
Legal counsel
A lawyer on the team means every engagement rests on legal advice, not only on operational experience.
Notary partners
Company formation in Mexico legally requires a notary at several steps. Founded MX works with two established notary partners, so that requirement never becomes a bottleneck or a scramble to find someone available.
You deal with one person. Behind that person are the specialists the work actually requires.
What that means in practice
Three languages, one of which is the one that matters
English, French and Spanish. Licensing offices, notaries and SAT operate in Spanish, and I handle those conversations directly rather than through a translator or an intermediary who is not accountable for the outcome.
I have been the operator, not only the advisor
Ten years of management consulting across Europe and Asia, then two years running a business here day to day. I know which advice survives contact with a Mexican bureaucracy and which does not, because I have had to live with my own.
I say what something will cost, and when I cannot, I say that instead
Setting up a basic company with no specialised licence costs 60,000 to 90,000 MXN. Most of that is notary and government fees, which I pass through at cost. A COFEPRIS registration or an alcohol licence is a different conversation, and I will not put a number on it before I know your premises and your activity.